Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Cottage.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-cornice-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willow Cottage, Church Road, Littlebourne, CT3 1UA
- OS grid reference
- TR 211 577
- Coordinates
- 51.27589, 1.16866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage dates from 1642 and is a one-storey building with attics. The front elevation is currently cement rendered, while the other sides are made of red brick that has been painted. The roof is tiled with gable ends and features axial chimneystacks. There are three hipped dormers and a stringcourse. The cottage has three altered casement windows and a simple doorcase. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Willow Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
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